Afghanistan (B), Albania (B), Algeria, Andorra (B), Armenia (B), Austria (B), Azerbaijan (B), Bahrain (P), Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina (B), Bulgaria (B), China (mainland) (B), Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska) (B) (NB), Cyprus (B) (NB), Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France (B) (NB) (P), Georgia (B), Germany (B), Gibraltar (NB), Greece (B) (NB) (P), India (B) (NB), Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Iraq (B) (NB) (P), Israel (B), Italy (B) (NB), Jordan (NB) (P), Kazakhstan (B), Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan (B), Lebanon (B), Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Liechtenstein (B), Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of] (B) (NB), Mali, Malta, Monaco (B) (NB), Mongolia (B), Montenegro (B), Morocco, Myanmar (B), Nepal (B), Oman, Palestinian Authority Territories (B) (NB), Portugal (B) (NB), Qatar, Romania (B), Russia (Asian) (B), Russia (Central Asian) (B), Russia (European) (B), Saudi Arabia (B), Senegal, Serbia (B), Slovenia (B), Spain (B) (NB), Sudan, Switzerland (B), Syrian Arab Republic (B), Tajikistan (B), Tunisia, Turkey (B) (NB), Turkmenistan (B), United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan (B), Yemen.
Vagrant to Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Gambia, United Kingdom.
Breeds southern and south-central Europe (southern from southern France, southern Germany, Austria, Romania), north-western Africa (Morocco east to Tunisia and north-eastern Libya),western Arabian Peninsula, and from Asia Minor, Caucasus and Near East (south to Israel) east to Iran, southern Russia (east to south-western Siberia) and northern Mongolia and, in south, to Himalayas (from Pakistan to Bhutan) and west, northern and south-central China; winters in Mediterranean region, northern and north-eastern Africa (also Senegambia and Guinea-Bissau), Middle East, India and southern China.
Population
Estimated population is 500,000 - 5,000,000 (2010).
Eurasian Crag Martin (Ptyonoprogne rupestris) [XC377669]
by Stanislas Wroza from almonaster la real, huelva, andaluc\u00eda, Spain (call, flight call, song)
Eurasian Crag Martin (Ptyonoprogne rupestris) [XC377670]
by Stanislas Wroza from almonaster la real, huelva, andaluc\u00eda, Spain (call, flight call, song)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Forms a superspecies with Rock Martin (Hirundo fuligula) and Dusky Crag Martin (Ptyonoprogne concolor) and all three have been considered conspecific, but breeding ranges overlap. Birds from central Asia and southern Morocco proposed respectively as subspecies centralasica and theresae on basis of size, but variation not constant.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet